Illinois Man Awarded $15 Million for 15 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

Loaded on July 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News July, 2002, page 14

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: Illinois.

On October 29, 2001, a federal jury in Chicago awarded $15 million plus about $2 million in attorney fees to James Newsome, 45, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 15 years behind bars. It was the largest wrongful imprisonment verdict in Illinois history.

In 1979, Newsome was arrested ...

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